How much does Fenster Family Foundation give?

Fenster Family Foundation reported 23 itemized grants totaling $34,535, out of $66,085 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Fenster Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (34%), International (7%), Health (4%).

Who are Fenster Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary ($14k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($8k), American Friends of Yad Eliezer ($7k).

Does Fenster Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Fenster Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fenster Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn.

Where is Fenster Family Foundation based?

Fenster Family Foundation is based in NY.

Fenster Family Foundation

Fenster Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Fenster Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it fundsRead

02Its granteesRead

03Its fieldRead

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$101kInternational$22kHealth$12kHuman Services$11kFood & Nutrition$4kPhilanthropy$4kEducation$4kMembership Benefit$250Other$0

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 23 grants below total $34,535, the rows itemized in this filing. The $66,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,550 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$164k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Merkaz Hakollilim D'Shikun Square	$6,000
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary	$3,575
Beis Medrash of Queens	$3,000
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$3,000
AFO Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh	$1,800
American Friends of Yad Eliezer	$1,800
Bnos Leah Prospect Park Yeshiva	$1,800
Yeshiva of Far Rockaway	$1,200
Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society	$1,000
American Friends of Keren Ami	$1,000
Friends of Lanefesh Tidreshenu	$1,000
Friends of Yad Sarah	$1,000
Masbia	$1,000
Ohel Childrens Home	$1,000
American Friends of Migdal Ohr	$1,000

02Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$109k · 26 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$109k

$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+44%

Still filing today

50%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalEducationReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

RI
RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +42%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +198%
RC
ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +71%

Funded once

MH
Mercaz Hakolllim D'Shilun Square
one grant, 2020 · $11k
CS
Congregation Sons of Israel
one grant, 2021 · $5k
AF
American Friends of Yeshiva Derech HaTalmud
one grant, 2020 · $5k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Sherit Isroel

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American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

American Friends of Tzir Hemed

Philanthropy

Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy

American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Tsq Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/23

Grantees still filing

18/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$102,230Education$16,068Religion$9,550Philanthropy$9,000International$8,960Human Services$7,400Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · Cd Foundation · Yisroel Aryeh and Leib Foundation · Md Friedman Family Foundation · The Levitin Family Charitable Trust · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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